This has been a project of mine for the past two years. It is about how some corporate leaders are able to get things done, while others dither away playing the blame game or make excuses for lack of progress. It is based on my personal experience as a C.E.O. and executive with some billion-dollar organizations.
During my working years, I got to meet some very talented industry experts; Advertising wizards, Marketing magicians, and some very dynamic leaders of companies that always seemed to be moving ahead. I learned a lot from watching and listening to them. I learned about mistakes they made and lessons learned, I saw the results of collaboration versus consensus. Most importantly, I learned that being the “Decider-in-chief” impacts lives, and industries in ways that many never realize.
In my book “Five Amazing Men”, I talked about some of the ordinary folks who influenced my personal growth and how those men changed me and my style of managing an organization. In a future book, I should probably give some recognition to four experts who certainly changed my perspective on the Sales side of the business, even though my expertise had been in Operations.
In “Move the Ball Forward”, I hope to capture the enthusiasm, creativity, and momentum that four industry experts brought to the table. It is not the Goal that is important, it is how you get there that makes the difference. Forward momentum every day is the key to accomplishing anything, and when my supervisors would leave for the day, they would proudly state that “they moved the ball forward” that day, (and tomorrow would provide us the chance to move it even further, again).
I am not lacking material. It is my desire to get it right, organize it is a logical way, so that the reader has a clear understanding of how to tackle a problem without trying to eat the entire elephant, so to speak. My hope is to finish this project in 2027. It is not that I am not working on it, It’s just that when you are writing multiple books at the same time, you go with the flow of thought at the moment. Even having said that, I write and research and organize a little bit every day, that is how I keep moving the ball forward.
